Lifestyle

Retirement is billed as the time when we finally get to do what we want. No alarm clock. No commute. No calendar filled with meetings we didn’t schedule. After decades of taking care of what needed to be taken care of, we’ve earned some freedom. But there’s an interesting question hiding inside that freedom: Do we know what we want?

There is something bothering me about the conversation we’re having around artificial intelligence. We’re giving the machine too much credit. Sometimes we’re giving it credit for what’s good. Sometimes we’re blaming it for what’s bad. Either way, we’re forgetting about the person sitting in front of it…

For this final article, I wanted to cover two things that might seem unrelated but actually belong together: matters of the heart and matters of the home. Both involve trust. Both involve letting someone new into your life, whether that’s a person or a contractor. And in both cases, AI can help you move forward with a little more confidence and a little less risk…

My brother recently sent me a comic about aging. The first panel shows a very young man, arm in a sling, telling his neighbor that his injury was caused by falling off a house and then getting hit by a car. Panel two is the man, now middle-aged, with the same injury, but this time he is explaining he broke…

There’s a moment on many overseas property viewings when the decision almost makes itself. The agent slides back the balcony doors, and there it is: blue sea, palm trees, perhaps a pool below, a view that bears no resemblance to the one from your kitchen window at home. You can already imagine the morning coffee…

In a moment of panic, I purchased two years of a password manager service. Nothing had actually happened. I had not been hacked. No mysterious person in another country was trying to buy electronics with my credit card. I had listened to a podcast about security breaches and decided that I needed a password manager immediately…

Sometimes there’s that niggling feeling. We can’t quite put our finger on it, but we know something doesn’t sit quite right. It’s not like you’re super unhappy or depressed, but something feels off and you can’t quite work out what. It’s frustrating because, on paper, everything can look okay. Different areas of your life are going okay…

My washer stopped working the other day. No error message, no clear explanation. Just a machine that wasn’t doing its job anymore. Years ago, this would have meant a phone call, a service appointment, and a wait. Instead, I opened the washing machine door, found the metal label with the model and serial numbers, and took a photo…

I announced my decision to retire just before my 65th birthday. It wasn’t my first retirement. A divorce forced the sale of my business at the crack of Covid. My emergency back-up career in real estate served me well, but reaching Medicare age gave me a nudge…

Downsizing is on the minds of many baby boomers right now, but with that comes the concern that if you downsize your home, you might also be downgrading your life and your lifestyle. After all, you’ve become accustomed to more space…